We have a long weekend coming; BlizzCon is finally here and our huge party is about to go down. But today I was able to hop on the PTR to test and kill Yor'sahj the Unsleeping and Ultraxion on 25-player mode! They are fairly easy fights, just how a normal 25-man fight should be. I imagine that Yor'sahj in particular will be incredibly tough on heroic as some of his combinations were hard even on normal.

Dungeon Journal Entries

Yor'sahj the Unsleeping

Since the fall of the Bastion of Twilight, Yor'sahj the Unsleeping has eagerly assisted Deathwing, providing the Destroyer with the means to release more faceless ones from their prisons deep beneath the earth. Their numbers are endless and their power is beyond reckoning, and Yor'sahj intends to reap a grim reward for his faithful service.

Void Bolt: Soulflayer Yor'sahj blasts his primary target with dark energy, dealing 75000 Shadow damage and reducing the amount of healing they take by -5%.

Call Blood of the Old Gods: Soulflayer Yor'sahj calls to the might of the Old Gods, summoning a globule of their blood. These globules will path slowly towards Yor'sahj, infusing him with their powers if they reach him.

Fusing Vapors: When attacked, the blood globules emit a vapor that fuses with all other nearby globules, healing them for 5% of their maximum life

Glowing Blood of the Old Gods: Yor'sahj becomes Infused with the Glowing Blood of the Old Gods, causing Void Bolt to hit all nearby targets, reducing the cooldowns by half, and increasing attack speed by 50%.

Cobalt Blood of the Old Gods: Grants the ability: Mana Void. Mana voids will leech the mana from all casters and healers, storing it in the void. Destroying the mana void will return the sum of the mana leeched evenly to all units within 18 yards.

Crimson Blood of the Old Gods: Grants the ability: Searing Blood. Yor'sahj sears the blood of random enemies, dealing 25000 base Fire damage. The further the target stands from Yor'sahj, the more shock they receive from the blast.

Black Blood of the Old Gods: Causes the mouth of Iso'rath to become a bubbling cesspool of corruption, spawning Forgotten Ones periodically.

Forgotten One

These creatures fixate on a random target.

Psychic Slice: Channels a wave of psychic force in a cone in front of the caster, dealing 160000 Shadow damage.

Acidic Blood of the Old Gods: Causes the mouth of Iso'rath to bubble with Digestive Juices. Digestive acid periodically leaks from the stomach lining, dealing 35000 Nature damage to an enemy and its surrounding allies within 4 yards.

Shadowed Blood of the Old Gods: Grants the ability: Deep Corruption. Healing or absorbtion effects taken while under this effect will trigger a detonation at 5 stacks, dealing 50000 Shadow damage to all nearby allies.

Ultraxion

Stage One: Growing Instability

During the battle, Ultraxion will grow increasinly unstsable with barely-contained Twilight energies.

Unstable Monstrosity: Growing Twilight instability causes arcs of Twilight energy to erupt from Ultraxion's hide, inflicting 400000 Twilight damage every 6 seconds, split evenly amongst enemy players in the Twilight Realm and within 30 yards of the target. Every minute that Ultraxion remains in combat reduces the time between arcs by 1 second, to a maximum rate of one arc per second. In addition, the instability prevents Ultraxion from dodging or parrying attacks, and allows attackers to explot weaknesses from any angle.

Twilight Shift: At the beginning of the battle, Ultraxion pulls all enemies with him into the Twilight Realm where they can bear the full brunt of his powerful Twilight assaults. Being pulled into the Twilight Realm grants players the Heroic Will ability.

Heroic Will: Steels the caster's mind to resist the forces of Twilight. Pulls the caster out of the Twilight realm for up to 5 sec, but renders them unable to attack, cast spells, or move while concentrating.

Fading Light: Sucks the light out of the target, drawing them into Twilight over 5-10 seconds. Upon expiration, targets in the Twilight Realm will be instantly killed. Targets in the normal realm will be pulled into the Twilight Realm, and all threat against Ultraxion will be reset. Additionally, no threat will be generated for 10 sec.

Hour of Twilight: The Hour of Twilight falls upon Ultraxion's foes. Enemies caught within the Twilight Realm take 300000 unresistable Twilight damage. Enemies within the normal realm are instantly pulled back into the Twilight Realm. If two enemies are not hit by Hour of Twilight, the Aspects will take the full brunt of the attack, disrupting the shield protecting the Aspects and heralding the end of all life on Azeroth.

Looming Darkness: When struck by Hour of Twilight, powerful waves of Twilight energy course through the victim, rendering them more susceptible to the harmful effects of Hour of Twilight. Additional damage taken by Hour of Twilight will instantly kill the target.

Twilight Burst: When no targets are within range of his powerful claws, Ultraxion expels a powerful burst of Twilight energy, inflicting 75000 unresistable Twilight damage and increasing magical damage taken by 50% for 6 sec. Stacks up to 100 times.

Aspects

Alexstrasza

Gift of Life: Alexstrasza creates a crystal of pure life energy. Activating the crystal imbues one healer with the essence of life itself, increasing healing done by 100% for the duration of the battle. The crystal has one charge. Only one buff granted by Alexstrasza, Ysera, or Kalecgos can be present on a player at any time.

Gift of Life: Alexstrasza creates two crystals of pure life energy. Activating the crystal imbues one healer with the essence of life itself, increasing healing done by 100% for the duration of the battle. Each crystal has one charge. Only one buff granted by Alexstrasza, Ysera, or Kalecgos can be present on a player at any time.

Ysera

Essence of Dreams: Ysera creates a crystal of dream energy. Activating the crystal imbues one healer with the power of dreams, which causes all healing done to be duplicated and distributed evenly amongst all friendly targets within 50 yards for the remainder of the battle. The crystal has one charge. Only one buff granted by Alexstrasza, Ysera, or Kalecgos can be present on a player at any time.

Essence of Dreams: Ysera creates two crystals of dream energy. Activating the crystal imbues one healer with the power of dreams, which causes all healing done to be duplicated and distributed evenly amongst all friendly targets within 50 yards for the remainder of the battle. Each crystal has one charge. Only one buff granted by Alexstrasza, Ysera, or Kalecgos can be present on a player at any time.

Kalecgos

Source of Magic: Kalecgos creates a crystal of amplified arcane energy. Activating the crystal imbues one healer with the essence of magic, reducing the mana cost of all spells by -75% and increasing spell haste by 100% for the remainder of the battle. The crystal has one charge. Only one buff granted by Alexstrasza, Ysera, or Kalecgos can be present on a player at any time.

Source of Magic: Kalecgos creates two crystals of amplified arcane energy. Activating the crystal imbues one healer with the essence of magic, reducing the mana cost of all spells by -75% and increasing spell haste by 100% for the remainder of the battle. Each crystal has one charge. Only one buff granted by Alexstrasza, Ysera, or Kalecgos can be present on a player at any time.

Nozdormu

Timeloop: Nozdormu captures all players within a finite timeloop. Any attack which would otherwise kill the player will instead bring them to 100% of maximum health and remove the Timeloop.

Thrall

Last Defender of Azeroth: Thrall, now the Earth-Warder of Azeroth, blesses all tanks with the immovable strength of the ancient stones of the world. Reduces defensive cooldowns by -50% and increases defensive ability durations by 100%.

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Comment by ShadowIze

Like omg so nice! And i so LOVE the music in the videos anyone that can give me artist or so?O:

Comment by BlaqkRequiem

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:57:59 -0500

go thrall!

Comment by Guacamole84

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:40:28 -0500

I could go for a frappe now after reading that name.

Comment by Sinespe

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:51:33 -0500

Ultraxion will grow increasinly unstsable

Made me giggle.

Comment by Ashelia

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:14:37 -0500

Ultraxion will grow increasinly unstsable

Made me giggle.

It's how it's typed in the DJ, randomly =( Their typos make me laugh a lot too.

Comment by xoawolf

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:00:43 -0500

Like omg so nice! And i so LOVE the music in the videos anyone that can give me artist or so?O:

I just know the on from the Ultraxion clip: City of the Fallen - Throne of Divinity

Comment by jdgks

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:18:37 -0500

Last Defender of Azeroth: Thrall, now the Earth-Warder of Azeroth, blesses all tanks with the immovable strength of the ancient stones of the world. Reduces defensive cooldowns by -50% and increases defensive ability durations by 100%.

Sooo... If you spec into Shield Block then you will have shield block CD on 30 seconds, and have it last for 10 seconds. So that means when you have this buff you will have 15 second CD on Shield block and 20 second duration.

Cool.

Comment by Guacamole84

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:35:59 -0500

If I'm not mistaken our tanks lost that buff for whatever reason, maybe there is a timer on it? Can anyone confirm?

Comment by lyk13

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:28:27 -0500

OMG Thrall!

Comment by Interest

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:35:40 -0500

Ultraxion will grow increasinly unstsable

Made me giggle.

Wow. Those are some pretty bad typos lol.

Comment by Nyana

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:46:01 -0500

When will the model recycling end :(

Comment by Interest

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:52:51 -0500

When will the model recycling end :(

When people quit complaining about it. Blizzard is clearly doing it to mess with the OCD players =)

Comment by Halax

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:18:33 -0500

Guys is it me.... or is ultraxion a tank and spank fight, the dps and healers are standing the whole fight still?

correct me if iam totally wrong

oh and when is blizzard gonna make new bosses,instead of recycling already excisting models. Really lame!

Comment by TomatoSauce

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:05:07 -0500

Every time I hear Ultraxion's name I keep thinking Transformers.

Comment by SirRaven

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:06:53 -0500

You mean only ranged dps in this fight.. Well, I guess Cataclysm set a new "standard"..

Comment by pezz

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:37:15 -0500

I know I'm missing the point of the blog, but I like the new HR seeing it in action.

Comment by Ashelia

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:42:59 -0500

I know I'm missing the point of the blog, but I like the new HR seeing it in action.

ATM it procs off beacon, so you just... ... spam it. They will have to change that (which I think they will on live, I remember seeing that somewhere) as well as possibly nerf how much it really does heal. I was like second healed on both.

Comment by Interest

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:08:53 -0500

Guys is it me.... or is ultraxion a tank and spank fight, the dps and healers are standing the whole fight still?

correct me if iam totally wrong

oh and when is blizzard gonna make new bosses,instead of recycling already excisting models. Really lame!

Actually, to be honest it reminds me a lot of Algalon without the adds or meteors of doom...but with a lot more raid damage.

Comment by Ztabbish1337

on Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:28:00 -0500

As a Melee DPS:er, How do I do DPS when I must stand so far away from Ultraxion? xD